A fifth-year student in 1890s Hogwarts; the wizarding world as an open world.
Mexico as a driving festival; the best open-world racer.
The Nemesis system: orcs who remember killing you; Monolith's Tolkien.
Ichiban in Hawaii with a Pokemon parody; the biggest Yakuza.
The Batmobile and Gotham on the night it is evacuated; Rocksteady closes the trilogy.
A cult in Montana and Hope County; the Far Cry formula in America.
Bolivia as a cartel sandbox for four players.
Pokemon with guns and factories; the 2024 phenomenon.
A blacksmith's son in 1403 Bohemia with no magic and real sword fighting; Warhorse's history.
A thousand planets and Constellation; Bethesda in space.
Crash on an ocean planet and build a base while something huge swims below.
Sam Porter Bridges connects Mexico and Australia; the 2025 sequel.
Tame dinosaurs and build a tribe; survival with a T. rex.
Deliver packages across a broken America with a baby in a jar; Kojima's walking game.
The Land of Shadow, Messmer and the final boss argued about for months; the biggest From expansion.
An open-world Mario Kart with 24 racers; the Switch 2 launch title.
A plane crash, cannibals and a son to find; build a fort in the woods.
Henry at Kuttenberg; the 2025 sequel that doubled everything.
Out of Midgar into the world map, Gold Saucer and the scene everyone knows.
Wake naked on a beach, build, get raided at 3 a.m.; the survival game about other people.
Jin Sakai against the Mongol invasion of 1274, in Kurosawa mode; Sucker Punch's samurai open world.
Hack San Francisco with DedSec; the sequel that found the fun.
A road-trip festival across Colorado; racing as a holiday.
An open-world stealth sandbox in Afghanistan and Africa; Kojima's last Metal Gear.
Climb the monsters and hire other players' pawns; Capcom's cult open-world RPG.
A grappling hook, a parachute and an island dictatorship to blow up; physics as a toy.
Aloy to a ruined San Francisco; the sequel with underwater machines.
Aloy hunts robot dinosaurs in a post-apocalyptic America; Guerrilla's open world.
Toussaint, a vampire and the best expansion ever made; Geralt's real ending.
An undercover cop in the Hong Kong triads; the open-world game with martial arts.
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